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...acknowledge AIDS in yourself is to be branded as monstrous. Laetitia Hambahlane (not her real name) is 51 and sick with AIDS. So is her brother. She admits it; he doesn't. In her mother's broken-down house in the mean streets of Umlazi township, though, Laetitia's mother hovers over her son, nursing him, protecting him, resolutely denying he has anything but TB, though his sister claims the sure symptoms of AIDS mark him. Laetitia is the outcast, first from her family, then from her society...
...junk in this building," she says. "We filled up lots of dumpsters with old broken-down furniture...
...arrived at the Outhouse. It's a broken-down three-story building with several SUVs parked in front, stereos blaring. The loudest SUV is playing Hill's Lost Ones. This is the place where Rah and other local rappers, like the Outsidaz, hang out. Young Zee, an up-and-coming rapper, comes out and gives Rah a long kiss. Turns out they're engaged (he's also the father of her daughter). "We want to get married on a Valentine's Day," says Rah. "We've been together eight years now. Valentine's Days keep slippin...
...issue will be framed differently. We are obsessed with privacy because we have temporarily mislaid a more important word: dignity. We talk about our "right to privacy," but we don't really mean it. This broken-down, ramshackle idea falls apart the moment you blow on it. Privacy to commit murder? To beat a wife or child? To abuse an animal? To counterfeit money? To be insane, refuse treatment and suffer never-endingly? Privacy is no absolute right; it is a nice little luxury when we can get it. Dignity is a necessity to fight for. And come 2025, life...
...your old record player. It's probably somewhere down there in the basement behind your broken-down Betamax, a Rubik's Cube or two, and a vinyl copy of Synchronicity. Cue up a record, and let it play. Congratulations--you're a musician. There may even be a spot for you on the rap-rock Family Values Tour...